Arabic Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University

Union Catalogue

McGill University possesses excellent collections of manuscripts in many different languages including Arabic, Persian, Latin, Sanskrit, and Pali. In the past, these manuscripts have received little attention from scholars because of insufficient or erroneous descriptions. A new generation of scholars has begun the detailed examination of some of these collections and this is the first catalogue of one group of manuscripts to be published.

Adam Gacek is head librarian of the Islamic Studies Library, McGill University. He has lectured on Arabic manuscripts not only at McGill, but also at Columbia, Yale, Brown, and Pennsylvania University.